In the middle of a table in Konrad Steffen’s office at the University of Colorado in Boulder sits a strikingly beautiful globe composed of hand-carved gemstones. Steffen, a geography professor, knows very well that sooner or later the globe will have to be revised. The coastline will shift, swallowing the Nile River megadelta, flooding low-lying […]
In the middle of a table in Konrad Steffen’s office at the University of Colorado in Boulder sits a strikingly beautiful globe composed of hand-carved gemstones. Steffen, a geography professor, knows very well that sooner or later the globe will have to be revised. The coastline will shift, swallowing the Nile River megadelta, flooding low-lying […]
After several months of deliberation, the Jefferson Scholars Foundation has decided to tear down the former Beta Theta fraternity house—a 94-year-old building also known as the Compton House—in order to make room for a 22,000-square-foot graduate fellowship center. "We analyzed various options, some of which included the house as part of the facility and others […]
Love them or hate them, Charlottesville and Albemarle police officers need a place to live. So do teachers. And social workers. The list goes on, and anyone who’s tried to live in the area knows that doing so on a $30,000 salary isn’t easy. Previous coverage: Protecting the salt of the earthTeresa Tapscott reflects on […]
All had seemed to be floating along just fine with the downtown Crozet rezoning, when suddenly some staff changes caught several active residents off guard. Previous coverage: Crozet dreams of improved downtownConsultants get input on how to alter zoning to fit mixed-use vision "I’m really upset about the process that I see here," said Sandy […]
Beyond bikes, cars and buses, city and county residents will soon have another mode of transportation to consider: ferryboat. A "pedestrian ferry" is currently being developed that will cross the Rivanna River and allow access between Darden Towe Park and Pen Park. The aptly named Rivanna River Ferry is part of phase one of the […]
On the evening of November 20, just two days before Thanksgiving, UVA students Guan Yu Lu and Baichan Shu waited in Tysons Corner for another Chinese national who had been called by an associate and asked to help out with car trouble, according to Fairfax Police Officer Don Gotthardt. Instead of finding a friend to […]
A federal jury convicted a Charlottesville woman of conspiracy to commit wire fraud on November 29 in the U.S. Western District Court. City resident Mary Dowdell and California resident Gregory Smyth faced charges stemming from a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors out of more than $29 million. Smyth pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire […]
Christmas came early this year for local blogger, political activist and UVA law student Mike Stark. His present? Last month, Fox News tried to stir up trouble for Stark at UVA law school in retaliation for Stark’s activism directed toward the conservative network’s prickly talk show host, Bill O’Reilly. Previous coverage: Stark raving madWhile the […]
While the guitar has been around since the days of Chaucer, it took some guy in Tennessee to make an innovation that…
As you’re hopping into your car, gearing up for the holidays, driving every which way to pick out shiny gifts, think about this: According to Robert Hirsch, a past senior energy program advisor for world oil production with Science Application International Corporations, the one resource that provides all those things could soon be in dangerously […]